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Helicone.ai
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Helicone.ai is the company blog at helicone.ai, writing about ai, startups and programming. Since 2023, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Helicone (W23) drops pricing to $25/mo”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Helicone.ai is an LLM observability tool. HN commenters link its LLM API pricing comparison page (llm-cost) and the main site as options for monitoring and evaluating LLM usage.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Routing and monitoring for reliable AI apps - the LLMOps platform behind the fastest-growing AI companies.
Most-linked posts?
- Helicone (W23) drops pricing to $25/mo5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-05-07
- We open-sourced pricing data for 300 LLM APIs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-20
- How to Automate a Product Hunt Launch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-27
What Hacker News says?
https://www.helicone.ai/llm-cost Tried a lot of them and settled on this one, they update instantly on model release and having all models on one page is the best UX.
Comment linking /llm-cost
on “Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed”Submitted Helicone Is Joining Mintlify as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnother one, with many more models: https://www.helicone.ai/llm-cost
Comment linking /llm-cost
on “Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data”Submitted LLM Stack Guide as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> There's no single database with information about all the available AI models. We started Models.dev as a community-contributed project to address this. There are literally dozens of existing projects that are doing what you are trying to do. Insert XKCD standards reference here: https://www.helicone.ai/llm-cost https://pricepertoken.com/ https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/provider_registration/add_model... https://arti…
Comment linking /llm-cost
on “Models.dev: open-source database of AI model specs, pricing, and capabilities”Submitted We open-sourced pricing data for 300 LLM APIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHelicone is also pretty decent: https://helicone.ai
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on “Open-source tools for LLM monitoring and observability”Submitted Out with Golden Datasets: Here's Why Random Sampling Is Better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf anyone finds this in the future, we found three solutions we're evaluating: https://www.promptlayer.com/ https://freeplay.ai/ https://www.helicone.ai/
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on “How do you allow non-technical folks to edit prompts?”Submitted Top AI Inferencing Platforms in 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm sorry, I should have been clearer -- I meant that I wish this would be a locally self-hostable observability solution for OpenAI-compatible APIs in general, not something that can only be deployed to Azure and is tied specifically to Azure's OpenAI service. For example, Helicone[0] and llm.report[1] work as generic proxies for the OpenAI API and you can deploy them anywhere. 0: https://www.helicone.ai/ 1: https:…
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on “Show HN: Monitoring your OpenAI usage without a third party”Submitted Techniques to Significantly Reduce LLM Costs in AI Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionlook into https://promptlayer.com/ https://www.helicone.ai/ https://wandb.ai/site/prompts
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on “Ask HN: How do you evaluate prompts?”Submitted How to Automate a Product Hunt Launch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helicone (W23) drops pricing to $25/mo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chain-of-Draft Prompting: A More Efficient Alternative to Chain of Thought as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powerful Techniques to Slash Your LLM Costs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating a Product Hunt Launch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finetuned LLMs with 2 lines of code. Helicone + OpenPipe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helicone increases free tier to 1M requests/mo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observability for Generative AI as a story · 1 points
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